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FISHING V REEL 4N0`.284,2117; "Patented sept. 4,1883;`

flu/@dart UNITED ESTATES PATENT. UFFICI-.

FREDERICK lVIALLESON, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

FISHING-REEL.

`SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.284,21'7, dated September 4, 1883*.

Application iledNovember 1B, 1882. (No model.)

.To @ZZ wiz/mn, t may concern Be it known that I, FREDERICK MALLEsoN, of Brooklyn, Kings county, New York, have inventedV new and useful Improvements in Reels for Fishing Purposes, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying. drawings, wherein- Figure l is a plan of the operating-gear and parts t-herewith connected, the cap having been removed. Fig. Zisr a plan of the under side of whatis known as a click or check77 reel,

Y andFig. 3 is a sectional view of the same.

Similar letters indicate similar parts. y

The object of my invention, is to obtain a more perfectly balanced reel, and to bring the strain as nearly as can be on its center.

My invention consists, mainly, in the employment of ahollow spool-shaft having central bearings, and operated by an independentlyrevolving driving-shaft which passes throughand has its bearings in it, by means of gearing arranged for that purpose. This arrangement gives the two shafts acoinmon center, and the strain is direct and at that point, instead of lying outside of it.

Some details of construction novel in their nature are involved. 1

Heretofore in nearly all multiplying reels the results desired have been obtained by attaching to the head-plate of the reel a rigid post, upon which revolved a gear-wheel operated' by a crank-handle supported by the post, by a revolvingplate which substantially constituted a crank-handle, or by a short shaft not extending through the reel, but with a single bearing in the head-plate. rlhe effect in either event was to bring the strain in one direction upona point betweenr the center and periphery of the head-plate and one side of the reel in another, and reducing the leverage of the crank-handle. and increasing the frictail plates n and o, respectively, and cap m, and with crank-handle l. In the arrangement of its parts the reel differs from ordinary reels, in that the operating-gear is transferred to the tail-plate-a decided advantage, as I claim, for 5 5 the reason that it largely tends to balance the reel both as to its center of gravity andas to the respective forces applied to it by the operation of the crank-handle and the resistance afforded by the iish on the shaft of the spool. 6o It is not, however, essential to the operation of the two shafts that this arrangement should be adopted. The shank or hollow center K of the spool B is continued through and has a bearing in both the head and tail plates n 65 and o, and thus constitutes a hollow shaft, which on one end is arrangedto receive a gearwheel, z'. Through this hollow shaft K, and revolving with it, is the driving-shaft c, which extends beyond it at both ends-in the one case 7c fitted to receive the crank-handle Z, and in the other a gear-wheel, f, which will revolve dir'ectly outside of andxparallel to the plane of the gear-wheel i.

At a proper point on the tail-plate, (as show 7 5 in the drawings, although the head-plate may be employed,) the point to be determined by the size of the gear-wheels, is placed a rigid post, upon which revolves a double gear, g and h, the sizes of which, respectively, must be de- 8o termined by the sizes of the gear-wheels f and z' with reference to the degree of multiplication. The rigid post of course may bereplaced by a revolving shaft, nding a bearing Veither on the bridge-plateorin the cap, and the gear- 85 wheels y and It wouldV then be so attached to it as to revolve with it. .Over this operatinggear is ,placed a bridge, s, to secure it, and it may be used as an additional bearing for the central shaft; or the latter may be extended 9c through to the cap on. tion by reason of the lateral strain `on thegearwheel, crank, and main shaft.

In Fig. 2 a check or click consisting of the usual ratchet or cog wheel, and pawl t, the latter operated by spring s', is shown under the head-plate. This pawl is rectangular in 95 its general outline, with a projecting finger on one side to engage the ratchet, and is pivoted on a post which extends through the. headplate a, and has rmly attached to it outside the head-plate a short switch-lever, w, by which 10o the post and pawl may be turned into and out of operation. By this means the pawl may be thrown so as vnot to engage the ratchet. As

will be seen, by this simple device the reel may 5 be converted at will from a check or click reel to a free-running reel, or vice versa.

In the event of the operating-gear being placed on the head-plate, the check might be placed under either the head or tail plate, and, in fact, could be in the present arrangement.

In operation, the crank-handle, being revolved, revolves the shaft c, which operates the gear f. Y This engages the gear g, which is onelialf the size of gear j', and, being permanently attached, gear g revolves the gear 71, which is in turn twice. the diameter of gear g, or the same size as gear f. Gear-wheel h engages gear-wheel fi, which is the same size asl gearlow spool-shaft K. The degree of multiplication will of course be determined by the rela'- tive sizes of the gears.

` Having describedmy invention, what I claim to be new, and desire to secure by Letters Pat- 2 5 ent, is-

1. In a shing-reel, the hollow revolving wheel y, and is attached to and drives the hol- .drum-shaft mounted in central bearings in the end plates, in combination with the independently-revolving driving-shaft passing therethrough and having its bearing therein, and 3o provided with the crank and means for transmitting motion to the said hollow shaft, as set forth.

2. In a iishing-reel, the operating-gear arranged upon the tail-plate o, in combination 35 with a central shaft driven by a crank on the head-plate, substantially as described.

3. In a fishing-reel, a reversible check or click consisting of the combination of Vthe ratchet-wheel mounted on the drum-shaft, be- 4o tween the end plate and the spool-head, the pawl engaging therewith, the spring engaging the pawl, the post carrying the pawl and projecting through the end plate, and the switchlever attached thereto for throwing the pawl 4 5 into or out of engagement with the ratchet at will, as set forth.

FREDK. MALLESON.

Vitnesses:

JAMEs DnMAREsr, W'. J. G. KEARNs. 

